"As he enters the hall, engulfed in pain, he realizes he has arrived at the perilous edge of the world and that from this entering there will be no departing. Help! he howls. Wake up! Get me out of here!"
I like how this time it seems as though the prince is dreaming. We see that he is just as trapped as Rose, maybe not through sleep, but in his mind while he slashes though the briars. When he cuts the briars, its almost metaphorical for the all of the crone's fake Sleeping Beauties that he tries to get though to find his true love. And Rose keeps destroying the fairy's fake princes because all she wants is her true prince. I guess what find frustating is that we see them fighting so hard through their illusions to get to each other, and they're so close, but they never meet. Coover is trying to tell us that in order to find love, we have to wake up and see past our illusions, we have to accept that love isn't always happily ever after. Reality, thats what we have to accept, and love can't become real if we are under a spell of another person's influence and not our own.
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